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Dear Eric: I鈥檓 retired with a productive garden and I want to preserve all my produce. But I find the 鈥渞ules鈥� have changed somewhat.

My mother-in-law is visiting from Ontario and I like to spoil and cook for her when she鈥檚 here. She loves comfort foods and one of the dishes she鈥檒l joyfully spoon up is borscht.

Tomato lovers wait for this all year 鈥� that moment when the plants in the garden are struggling under the weight of those gorgeous red (or yellow or orange or even green) orbs, and the tables at the farmers markets threaten to buckle under the load.

Let鈥檚 be honest: Without dressing, salad is little more than rabbit food. But a great salad dressing can elevate even the most humble ingredients, and there are no dressings easier to create and with more potential variations than vinaigrettes.

When it comes to school lunches, variety is important to keep kids from getting bored. A healthy mix also provides different nutrients.

With the start of school right around the corner, now is the time to brainstorm with your kids to line up some new recipes and fun ideas for lunches.

If you鈥檙e having a few friends over for a late summer lunch or dinner, why not have some tasty fun and serve what I call, not a Tex-Mex, but a West-Mex meal? In this fusion of Mexican and West Coast flavours, tacos are made with Mexican-style soft, w

Dear Eric: Do you have a recipe for a (tomato-based) vegetarian spaghetti sauce? I鈥檝e tried a lot of different ones, but having had so much luck with every one of your recipes that I've made, I鈥檇 like to see what you come up with.

Emily Wight insists you don鈥檛 have to break the bank to eat well. Her new cookbook, Well Fed, Flat Broke: Recipes for Modest Budgets and Messy Kitchens (Arsenal Pulp Press), stems from a blog she began writing after graduating from university.

Author Emily Wight has long practised frugality, developing cost-effective and easy dishes over time which she shares in Well Fed, Flat Broke: Recipes for Modest Budgets and Messy Kitchens.